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This interactive documentary tells the stories of African immigrants and refugees living in Australia and their struggles and successes in shaping - and being shaped by - Australian society. It is both multi-platform and multi-lingual as the entire site has been translated and subtitled into six of the highest needs languages spoken in the African-Australian community. Each story is also being broadcast nationally across 68 language programs on SBS Radio.
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Forgotten during the last decade by information technologies, Africa lives today the digital revolution at full speed. Few years ago, the use of fixed phone was the privilege of a small rich minority. Today in the streets of Bamako or Dakar, the use of mobile phone have revolutionized the lives of african people. The internet users are becoming more numerous in Internet cafes in Bamako or Dakar.
Africascopie is a crowdsourced report in Mali and Senegal. The two journalists was helped by african bloggers and internet users. More…

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Streetlight is a web documentary about street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The story documents the work carried out by the Danish-Ethiopian NGO Hope For Children and it is presented in full screen Flash. The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is home to thousands of migrant workers - many of them children - who have been brought in from rural areas to work as slaves, especially in prostitution and in the weaving industry. Ethiopia deals with a variety of serious social-economic problems and many foreign NGOs and missionaries therefore operate in the country. More…

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Sexual violence is a devastating weapon in the war-torn North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese army and rebel groups systematically use brutal gang rape against their enemies, causing crippling injuries and spreading HIV. Aid groups estimate one in three women in North Kivu have been raped. A child soldier tells why he participated in the gang rapes, and victims of sexual violence talk about their ordeals. More…

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Spencer Platt, a staff photographer with Getty Images, spent two weeks in December 2007 with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Central African Republic. Here, he describes photographing a population living in extreme distress. More…

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"I’ve wanted to show another side of Darfur" where people are fighting back and refusing to leave the homes that form the basis of their livelihoods. By torching those villages and bombing thatch-roofed huts, the Sudanese government has unsuccessfully tried to squash an uprising made up of blacks and Arabs who are fighting for roads, schools, clinics, electricity, clean water, and participation in a government that has marginalized their region and others in Sudan for decades. " More…

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The competition for water in Sudan's Darfur region can be a life or death struggle. But the trouble is only beginning, as it becomes clear that climate change will have its sharpest effects here in Africa.
Monitor correspondent Scott Baldauf, and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman, traveled to one of the most vulnerable areas of the continent to see how Darfur refugees are coping in desert camps near the border of Sudan. More…

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Thousands of Liberians fled their country during a civil war and settled in Minnesota. This package explores the culture of the immigrants, their contributions to the Minneapolis area, and the possibilities for their future. More…

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The farm family, with deep community roots and generations living close to the soil, finds itself at the center of profound demographic, technological, economic and environmental change. Over five days, meet four Iowa farm families navigating this changing world. And, in a journalistic first, step into the century-old Dammann farm through 360-degree video and virtual reality.

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A global guide to the first world war

The first world war interactive documentary in 7 languages with 30 minutes of film plus interactive maps, picture galleries, audio interviews, archive news articles. Its a global look at the war told through the voice of 10 historians from 10 different countries.

StoryScape is a new literacy platform for the digital age that...

StoryScape is a new literacy platform for the digital age that is being developed by the Affective Computing Group in the MIT Media Lab. The goal of the project is to create an inclusive creative learning platform that allows users to create stories in order to facilitate constructionist participatory learning.

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NYTimes' Lens'

Because of the excellent suggestions from Times' Lens' contributors and since it's no secret I work at the Times as the Multimedia Editor, I went ahead and included NYTimes' Lens' Must See RSS feed to the Interactive Narratives' NetVibes Universe. You can More…

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Trent Nelson's "The Click" blog

I found Trent Nelson’s "The Click" blog via Zach Wise. The Click is quick. And their RSS feed is now a part Photojournalism area of the Interactive Narrative More…

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Want to get faster updates of multimedia stories and interactive narratives? Follow Interactive Narratives, or INarratives, on twitter at http://twitter.com/inarratives. More…

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New Feeds on Interactive Narratives' NetVibes Universe

I just added a few more feeds to our NetVibes Universe. Any other must haves on the list? New ones include:
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New Multimedia Training Opportunities at the University of Miami

For almost a decade, the multimedia bootcamp workshops at the University of North Carolina provided one of the main training sites for hundreds of professional journalists seeking to understand new storytelling tools and techniques and to gain hands-on tr More…